Artists say love isn't represented in lives

Usage examples of expressionists.

Yes, and by some miracle I was surely never able to achieve as a painter, nor was Dan Gregory, but which was achieved by the best of the Abstract Expressionists, in the paintings which have greatness birth and death are always there.

Where would the Abstract Expressionists have been, after all, without Clement Greenberg?

And suddenly he began to paint the pictures which make many people say today that he was the greatest of all the Abstract Expressionists -- superior to Pollock, to Rothko.

I was the best technician by far among the Abstract Expressionists, but I never amounted to a hill of beans, either, and couldn't have -- and I am not talking about my fiascoes with Sateen Dura-Luxe.

First come the doomed little girls on swings in the foyer, and then the earliest works of the first Abstract Expressionists, and then the perfectly tremendous whatchamacallit in the potato barn.

The melancholy roll-call of real-life suicides among the Abstract Expressionists again: Gorky by hanging in 1948, Pollock and then almost immediately Kitchen, by drunken driving and then pistol in 1956 -- and then Rothko with all possible messiness by knife in 1970.

The walls were a cool lavender and there were wonderful paintings on them, paintings by expressionists, full of rich and throbbing color.